Red Acre Farm
offers a year-round free-choice CSA share
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We offer a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) share that provides food for 12 months of the year for all diet choices.
This is for a diet of 3 meals a day, not food storage.
Members come to the farm once a week and take what they need in any quantity or combination they choose.
Shares include a wide variety of nutrient-dense vegetables, herbs, fruits, raw goat milk, raw cow milk, cheese, yogurt, and eggs from happy hens, as well as free-range beef, pork, pasture-raised chicken, and turkey, and grain: whole wheat (ancient varieties).
Members choose what to take each week and are encouraged to take extra produce in peak season for preserving. We sometimes limit scarce items like prime cuts of meat, honey, certain fruits, or the year’s first tomatoes, but most food is available on an all-you-can-eat basis.
We do not intend to entirely replace the grocery store; this program offers the ability for members to eat most of their food from the farm.
When members join our farm share, it will require a level of awareness about seasonal foods that would seem radical for most American diets. In practice, the share provides enough food not to eliminate all grocery store shopping, but to reduce it to a supplement.
Less than 75 years ago these foods were the norm, homegrown, locally sourced, and organic - the way food should be!
“The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local fields, and forests. It was near kitchens, near tables, near bedsides. It was in the pantry, the cellar, the backyard.
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― Joel Salatin
What’s in the share?
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Free choice of vegetables, microgreens, fruit, meat, dairy, grains, eggs, and herbs in any combination.
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Enough food for the entire family to enjoy 3 meals a day, 7 days a week, in the diet of your choice, not for food storage.
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A Sour Dough Start with our instruction booklet.
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A Farm Note and Recipes.
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Occasional special items from Red Acre Farm & neighboring farms we consider to be gems in our region: e.g. honey, canned or frozen products, flowers, and bread.
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The opportunity to take extra produce during the peak season for drying, fermenting, freezing, or canning.
Cost Per Week, Per Person
Approximate weekly prices. Children under 5 eat free. Please use the calculator for the exact pricing
Share Type | Child (6-12) | Child (13-15) | Adult |
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Omnivore | 38.25 | 55.25 | 85 |
Lacto-Ovo | 35.19 | 50.83 | 78.2 |
Herbivore | 28.31 | 40.89 | 62.9 |
Discounts & Benefits
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We offer a 5% discount on annual and bi-annual payments.
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Lacto-Ovo shares are available at an 8% discount, and Herbivore shares are available at a 26% discount.
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10% off for each additional adult share.
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Being a part of a community.
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Healthier diet.
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Classes are specifically held just for current members at no charge. We want to help those for whom this is a new adventure or who want to learn how to best prepare and cook the food we provide.
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Free Farm Breakfast for current members at our annual Spring Day event.
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50% off Farm Breakfast for current members held on the Last Saturday of the month from May thru September.
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10% off all prepared, ready-to-eat food from the farm kitchen. This includes farmer's markets, farm dinners, prepared food in the farm stand, and our Burgers Bands & Bikes event. This excludes meat, preserved foods, and non-food items.
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10% off classes offered to the public.
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Annual summer workday social
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Annual fall shareholder potluck
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Note these discounts are for members only, not extended family, friends, neighbors, etc.
Vegetables
Arugula, Asparagus, Asian Greens, Beets, Broccoli, Carrots, Cauliflower, Celery, Chard, Cherry Tomatoes, Chicories, Collards, Cucumbers, Eggplant, Fennel, Garlic, Garlic Scapes, Cabbage, Hakurei Turnips, Kale, Kohlrabi, Leeks, Lettuce (head & mix), Microgreens, Mustard Greens, Onions, Pakchoi, Peas (sugar & snap), Peppers (sweet & hot) Potatoes, Parsnips, Pumpkins, Radishes, Rhubarb, Scallions, Sorrel, Spinach, String Beans, Summer Squash, Sweet Corn, Swiss Chard, Tomatoes
(Heirloom), Turnips, Winter Squash, and Zucchini.
Many of the vegetables we grow often have several varieties.
When temperatures are still freezing, we will be harvesting greens grown in unheated high tunnels as well as offering crops from storage.
Fruit
What the farm cannot offer due to the climate in this area we forage for or partner with two very small family orchards just far enough south that they can grow what we cannot. Apples, Apricots, Blackberries, Cherries, Grapes, Melons, Nectarines, Peaches, Pears, Plums, and Pomegranates. Citrus (from California or Arizona), and Cranberries ( These are not from a marsh, they are hand-harvested from the bush from our friends growing on 2 certified organic acres in Oregon).
Culinary & Medicinal Herbs
Basil, Chamomile, Chives, Cilantro, Dill, Mint, Oregano, Parsley, Rosemary, Sage, Shisio, Stinging Nettles, Tarragon, and Thyme.
Dairy and Eggs
We provide raw Jersey cow and raw Snubian (Saanen and Nubian mix) goat milk on tap. Members who choose whole milk have the opportunity to make butter, kefir, yogurt, and cheese. When there is an abundance of milk we will offer soft cheese and yogurt. We partner with a local raw dairy and small artisans to provide additional cheeses.
Our laying hens are happy! They free-range and are never fed bioengineered grains. We never give them antibiotics or hormones. Their eggs are fertile, and they drink from untreated well water.
Meat
Free-range beef and pork. Our chickens and turkeys are raised on pasture.
Not all cuts or every type of meat are offered every week. We sometimes limit prime cuts. Turkeys are only available at Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Because we raise and have whole animals butchered for our members, we all eat from nose to tail. There will be nutrient-dense organ meats and bones as well as pure tallow and lard.
Our cows, pigs, chickens, and turkeys, are raised off-farm where there is plenty of room to range.
Grain
Whole wheat (ancient varieties) grown in Utah. We have a grinder for you to grind your grain.
Occasional
Occasional items from Red Acre Farm & neighboring farms we consider to be gems in our region include honey, canned or frozen products, flowers, and bread.